Creating Blueprints

This topic covers these screens:

Blueprint Manager Screen

Access this screen by selecting Start—Programs—Stellent Content Server—instancename—Report Parser on the server. You can also access it through the Stellent Admin page from a client system browser. Use the Blueprint Manager screen to add and edit your blueprints.

Edit New Blueprint Screen

Access this screen by selecting Edit—Add Blueprint on the Blueprint Manager screen. Use it to add a new blueprint definition. The Edit Blueprint screen is divided into two regions as shown in the following figure.

The top area of the screen displays the Exemplar Text for the type of report that you will process using the new blueprint. (This area will be blank when you are adding a new blueprint.) The text displayed here is typically extracted from a sample report that is representative of the type of report that will be parsed.

The bottom area of the screen displays several report processing tabs used for defining the criteria for formatting and processing reports with the current blueprint. These tabs are further defined in the following sections.

Edit Blueprint Properties Screen

Access this screen by clicking Edit on the top panel of the Edit New Blueprint screen. Use it to specify a sample report from which to extract the exemplar text for this blueprint.

Options

Field

Description

Line Numbers

Displays a number to each line of the exemplary text. This may help you to specify regions within the exemplar text, and compare the exemplar text with the headers in similar reports.

Line Endings

Displays a marker that shows the end of each line. This is useful if your lines end in spaces.

Split Window

Adds a second window, so you can work with both the header information and the report body in the same screen.

Browse

Enables you to search for a report in the local file system from which to extract exemplar text.

Search

Enables you to search for a Content Item in Stellent Content Server from which to extract exemplar text.

Note: The Browse button is active only when you run Report Parser as an application on the server, not when you run it as an applet.  The Search button is active when you run it as an application or an applet.

Exemplar Text ID Screen

Access this screen by clicking Search on the Edit Blueprint Properties screen. Use it to search for exemplar text in Stellent Content Server. You can search by Content ID or Title.